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Previous 2007 Seminars

11 Jan James Gray USGS Denver Fate and Effects of Endocrine-Disrupting Compounds in Surface Water
1 Feb Bill McDonald GSA, Menlo Park Mechanical Operations of the McKelvey Building
15 Feb Jeff Myers NASA NASA Airborne Remote Sensing of the Bay Area
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/15feb2007.wmv
1 Mar Carol Kendall USGS Menlo Park Looking for 'Hot Spots' in Rivers Using Longitudinal Synoptics: Examples from the Willamette and San Joaquin Rivers
8 Mar John Nimmo USGS Menlo Park A New Method for Simple Prediction of Maximum Transport Rate in Unsaturated Soil and Rock
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/08mar2007.wmv
22 Mar Julien Thebault Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France Are Climate, Phytoplankton, and Metal Pollution Variability Recorded in Mollusk Shells? Stories from New Caledonia and Beyond
26 Mar Axel Heimann Technical University of Denmark Anaerobic Respiration of Groundwater Contaminants: Microbial Energetics and Competition for H2
29 Mar Rochelle Labiosa USGS, Menlo Park Phytoplankton Bloom Formation in Oligotrophic Regions: the Interplay Between Ecological and Physical Dynamics in the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea.
5 Apr Noah Knowles USGS, Menlo Park Trends in Snowfall Versus Rainfall in the Western United States
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/05apr2007.wmv
11 Apr Stuart Borrett Stanford University Searching for Ecosystem Models that Explain Phytoplankton Dynamics in the Ross Sea
12 Apr Hui-Hai Liu Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Potential Scale Dependence of Effective Matrix Diffusion Coefficient in Fractured Rock
19 Apr Katie McGourty NOAA Fisheries Habitat Utilization, Fecundity, and Parasites of the Tidewater Goby in Big Lagoon, CA
26 Apr Ellen P. Metzger San Jose State University Challenges in Earth Science Education: How Scientists Can Help
30 Apr Brian Branfireun University of Toronto, Mississauga Coupling Watershed Hydrology to Mercury Fate and Transport Processes
10 May Ken Bencala USGS, Menlo Park Sampling in Mine Drainage -- Looking for Solute Inflows to Streams with Questions on Hyporheic Mixing
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/10may2007.wmv
17 May Laurence Miller and James Kuwabara USGS, Menlo Park Reviewing Manuscripts and Proposals: Reviewer and Editor Perspectives
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18 May Holly Michael and Clifford Voss Stanford University and USGS, Reston Hydrogeologic Modeling of the Bengal Delta Aquifer of India and Bangladesh and Sustainable Management of Water Quality in the High-Arsenic Region
29 May Matt Hipsey University of Western Australia Towards a Dynamic and Adaptive System for Real-time Water Quality Management
1 June Peter Germann University of Bern, Switzerland Hydromechanics of Preferential Flow
7 June Shaun Baesman USGS, Menlo Park The Reduction of Oxyanions by Anaerobic Bacteria
6 Sep Ellen Mallman Stanford University Subsidence in the Louisiana Coastal Zone Due to Hydrocarbon Production
7 Sep Hans Paerl University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Ecology and Management of Blue Green Algae
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/07sep2007.wmv
13 Sep Paul Hsieh USGS, Menlo Park A Bi-State Aquifer Study: Modeling the Spokane Valley-Rathdrum Prairie aquifer in Washington and Idaho
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/13sep2007.wmv
20 Sep Sema Sevinc Sengor University of California, Davis Biogeochemical Cycling of Heavy Metals in Benthic Sediments of Lake Coeur d'Alene
27 Sep Cindy Brown USGS, Menlo Park Using Biodynamic Modeling to Understand Species-specific Differences in Metal Accumulation
4 Oct Bridget R. Scanlon University of Texas, Austin 2007 GSA Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecture
Impacts of Changing Land Use and Land Cover on Subsurface Water Resources
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/04oct2007.wmv
15 Oct Robert Eganhouse USGS, Reston ‘Old Pollutants Never Die - They Just Fade Away’: The Fate of DDT on the Palos Verdes Shelf
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/15oct2007.wmv

25 Oct Heather Buss USGS, Menlo Park Creating the Critical Zone: Coupling Bedrock Weathering to Soil Thickness and Microbial Growth
1 Nov Kate Campbell USGS, Menlo Park Biogeochemical Mechanisms of Arsenic Mobilization in Haiwee Reservoir Sediments
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/wrd/01nov2007.wmv

15 Nov James Butler University of Kansas 2007 Darcy Lecture
Getting the Information Ground Water Modelers Need: A Report from the Field

6 Dec Dan Cain USGS Menlo Park Bioaccumulation and Metal Sensitivity in Stream Invertebrates
18 Dec Pierpaolo Zuddas Université Claude Bernard Lyon, France A Key for ‘Stable’ Sequestration of CO2 in Geological Reservoirs: The Kinetics of Carbonate Formation


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